Dave DeLaurant
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For the past year or so I've been helping my buddy Bob empty his former residence prior to sale, and yesterday while dragging some stuff out of his workshop/garage we found several boxes of old magazines. Two boxes contained his collection of National Lampoon, which we took to a nearby antique store, but another box was filled with old issues of Guns, Guns & Ammo, Shooting Times, American Rifleman and Soldier of Fortune from the 60s-80s. Bob didn't want any of them, so I took the box home with me and spent most of yesterday afternoon revisiting my youth.
Those old SOF mags were a real blast from the '70s -- lots of articles about Cubans in Rhodesia and Angola. American Rifleman transported me back to Fresno High School; my dad would drop me off there around 7am on his way to work, and I'd go to the school library as soon as they opened and read old and current American Rifleman issues until my first class.
Some good stuff in this box -- I found a very interesting article on Colonel Winder of Winder Musket fame. Also lots of pieces in the other mags by George Nonte, Elmer Keith, Charles Askins, Jeff Cooper and so on. I skipped through a generous amount of fuddlore and puff pieces, but found some gold dust sprinkled here and there.
Not the worst way to kill an afternoon, plus part of this morning spent scanning and saving the good stuff as PDFs in my electronic archive.
Those old SOF mags were a real blast from the '70s -- lots of articles about Cubans in Rhodesia and Angola. American Rifleman transported me back to Fresno High School; my dad would drop me off there around 7am on his way to work, and I'd go to the school library as soon as they opened and read old and current American Rifleman issues until my first class.
Some good stuff in this box -- I found a very interesting article on Colonel Winder of Winder Musket fame. Also lots of pieces in the other mags by George Nonte, Elmer Keith, Charles Askins, Jeff Cooper and so on. I skipped through a generous amount of fuddlore and puff pieces, but found some gold dust sprinkled here and there.
Not the worst way to kill an afternoon, plus part of this morning spent scanning and saving the good stuff as PDFs in my electronic archive.
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